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Howard Simons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, asked Alvear as well as a 1987-88 Nieman Fellow, Rosental Alvis, to help get Gonzalez out of Chile. The three placed calls to the American ambassador to Santiago and the Chilean ambassador to the United States. "The constant calling eventually resulted in the Chilean government letting her go," said Alvear...
...newest evening newscast contains no crime footage, no clips of Bush and Dukakis trading jabs on the campaign trail, no fluffy features on roller- skating or baseball-card collectors. A typical show last week opened instead with a nearly 6-min. report on the upcoming election in Chile. That was followed by an examination of political unrest in Burma, which began in the leisurely tones of a travelogue: "Burma, a gentle land, devoutly Buddhist, dotted with the spires of golden pagodas, a place where time seems to be standing still...
...nominating process was dubbed Super Tuesday, but any resemblance between the meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Santiago last week and the U.S. primaries was in name only. In less than an hour, a handful of top military men had named President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Chile's ruler of 15 years, as the only candidate in an Oct. 5 plebiscite. Pinochet appeared on the balcony of the presidential palace and urged citizens to keep Chile "sovereign and free...
Chilean officials claim the measures were lifted because the government had succeeded in establishing order within the country. The more likely reason: politics. This week Chile's four military commanders will meet to nominate the country's sole presidential candidate, almost certain to be Pinochet, for a plebiscite planned for October...
...party rule in Mexico or one-man rule in Chile benefits the United States more than an open, democratic system because the U.S. would rather have order in Mexico City and Santiago than chaos in both cities...